背景:埃博拉病毒病是国际公共卫生领域的紧急情况,目前,没有标准的治疗方法。因此,有一个基本需要的认识,个人对埃博拉病毒疾病和预防。互联网和健康网站被认为是有关某些疾病的健康信息的来源。因此,在这项研究中,对埃博拉波斯语网站的可信度进行评估。
方法:使用Yahoo搜索“埃博拉”一词,Google,和Bing搜索引擎。研究了每个搜索引擎产生的前30个网站。波斯语是包容的先决条件。排除了重复和无法访问的网站,并保留了62个网站进行评估。这些网站由研究人员手动评估。研究工具是HONcode官方工具栏以及研究人员基于HONcode的行为工具设置的清单。数据采用SPSS18.0软件进行分析。
结果:所有检索到的网站均未获得HONCodeofConduct的正式批准。此外,人工评估显示,他们都没有充分考虑HONcode的8项标准.结果显示,大多数检索到的网站(62%)都是商业性的。在89%的研究网站中已经考虑了正当性标准,但是只有16%的网站考虑了权威标准。
结论:关于埃博拉病毒病的波斯网站可靠性差,考虑到波斯语的人更喜欢用他们的母语阅读信息,建议授权的健康组织以波斯语引入可靠的健康网站。这将有助于他们参与积极的医疗保健决策和疾病预防。此外,有必要对人们特别是波斯语的人进行有关网站评估工具的教育,这可用于在消费健康网站上的信息之前评估这些网站的可信度。
BACKGROUND: Ebola virus disease is an emergency situation in the area of international public health for which currently, there is no standard treatment. Thus, there is an essential need for awareness of individuals about the Ebola disease and consequently its prevention. Internet and health websites are considered a source of health information about certain diseases. Therefore, in this study, the credibility of Persian-language websites on Ebola is assessed.
METHODS: The term \"Ebola\" was searched using the Yahoo, Google, and Bing search engines. The first 30 websites resulting from each search engine were studied. Persian language was a prerequisite for inclusion. Duplicate and inaccessible websites were excluded and 62 websites were retained for evaluation. These websites were manually assessed by the researchers. The research tool was HONcode official toolbar as well as the checklist set by the researchers based on the HONcode of Conduct tool. The data were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 software.
RESULTS: None of the retrieved websites was officially approved by the HONcode of Conduct. Moreover, the manual evaluation showed that none of them had fully considered the eight criteria of HONcode. The results showed that most of the retrieved websites (62%) were commercial. The justifiability criterion had been considered in 89% of the studied websites, but the authority criterion had been considered by only 16% of the websites.
CONCLUSIONS: Regarding the poor reliability of Persian websites on the Ebola disease, and considering that Persian language people prefer to read the information in their native language, it is recommended that the authorized health organizations introduce reliable health websites in the Persian language. This will help them to take part in active healthcare decision-making and disease prevention. Moreover, it is necessary to educate people especially Persian language ones about the website evaluation tools, which can be used to assess the credibility of health websites before consuming the information on those websites.